The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

(6) PAGES 775-783.

VI, 1. 54-VII, 1. 275: struck out of the text of P. W., 1839 (1st ed.), but restored in the 2nd edition of that year. Note (3) above.

(7) PAGE 778.

See

The exterminable spirit it contains, etc. (VII, 1. 23.) Exterminable seems to be used here in the sense of 'illimitable' (N. E. D.). Rossetti proposes interminable, or inexterminable.

of human weal

Dawns on the virtuous mind, .etc. (VIII, 11. 204-205.) With some hesitation as to lore, I reprint these lines as they are given by Shelley himself in the note on this passage (supra, p. 982). The text of 1813 runs :

Which from the exhaustless store of human weal

Draws on the virtuous mind, etc. This is retained by Woodberry, while Rossetti, Forman, and Dowden adopt eclectic texts, Forman and Dowden reading lore and Draws, while Rossetti, again,

reads store and Dawns. Our text is supported by the authority of Dr. Richard Garnett. The comma after infiniteness (1. 206) has a metrical, not a logical, value.

(11) PAGE 788.

Nor searing Reason with the brand of God. (IX, 1. 48.) Removed from the text, P. W., 1839 (1st ed.), by Mrs. Shelley, who failed, doubtless through an oversight, to restore it in the second edition. See Notes (3), (6), and (9) above.

(12) PAGE 788. Where neither avarice, cunning, pride, nor care, etc.

(IX, 1. 67.) The ed. prin. reads pride, or care, which is retained by Forman and Woodberry. With Rossetti and Dowden, I follow Mrs. Shelley's text, P. W., 1839 (both edd.).

NOTES TO QUEEN MAB
(1) PAGE 810.

The mine, big with destructive power, burst under me, etc.

(Note on VII. 67.)

This is the reading of the Poetical Works of 1839 (2nd ed.). The editio princeps (1813) reads burst upon me. Doubtless under was intended by Shelley: the occurrence, thrice over, of upon in the ten lines preceding would account for the unconscious substitution of the word here, either by the printer, or perhaps by Shelley himself in his transcript for the press.

(2) PAGE 815. it cannot arise from reason(Note on VII. 135.) The editio princeps (1813) has conviction for reasoning here-an obvious error of the press, overlooked by Mrs. Shelley in 1839,

(3) PAGE 840.

Saint Edmond's Eve. This ballad-tale was "conveyed" in its entirety by Cazire from Matthew Gregory Lewis's Tales of Terror, 1801, where it appears

under the title of The Black Canon of Elmham; or, Saint Edmond's Eve. Stockdale, the publisher of Victor and Cazire, detected the imposition, and communicated his discovery to Shelley-when 'with all the ardour natural to his character he [Shelley] expressed the warmest resentment at the imposition practised upon him by his coadjutor, and entreated me to destroy all the copies, of which about one hundred had been put into circulation.'

(4) PAGE 860.

To Mary who Died in this Opinion.-From a letter addressed by Shelley to Miss Hitchener, dated November 23, 1811.

(5) PAGE 860.

A Tale of Society.-The titles of this and the following piece were first given by Professor Dowden from the Esdaile MS., from which also one or two corrections in the text of both poems, made in Macmillan's edition of 1890, were derived.

A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF
SHELLEY'S POETICAL WORKS,

SHOWING THE VARIOUS PRINTED SOURCES OF THE
CONTENTS OF THIS EDITION

II.

III.

IV.

The Devil's Walk; a Ballad. Printed as a broadside, 1812.

VI.

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems. | By] Percy Bysshe Shelley | London | Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Pater-noster Row; and Carpenter and Son, | Old Bond Street: By S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey 1816.

VII.

(3) A few copies of The Revolt of Islam bear date 1817 instead of 1818.

(4) The same sheets were used again in 1829 with a third titlepage similar to the foregoing [2], but with the imprint "London : | Printed for John Brooks, | 421 Oxford-Street. | 1829." (H. Buxton Forman, C.B.: The Shelley Library, p. 73.)

(5) Copies of the 1829 issue of The Revolt of Islam not infrequently occur with Laon and Cythna text.' (Ibid., p. 73.)

VIII.

IX.

(1) The Cenci. | A Tragedy, | In Five Acts. | By Percy B. Shelley. I Italy. Printed for C. and J. Ollier, | Vere Street, Bond Street. I London. 1819.

XI.

XII.

Epipsychidion | Verses Addressed to the Noble | And Unfortunate Now Imprisoned in the Convent of Lady Emilia V L' anima amante si slancia fuori del creato, e si crea nel infinito un Mondo tutto per essa, diverso assai da questo oscuro e pauroso | baratro. Her Own Words. | London | C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street | MDCCCXXI.

XIII.

XIV.

Posthumous Poems | of umile e queta, | Ed in alto sul giovenil fiore, | E in

XV.

vita Percy Bysshe Shelley. | In nobil sangue Frutto senile in intelletto un puro core; aspetto pensoso anima lieta. | Petrarca. |

London, 1824: Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, | Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. (Edited by Mrs. Shelley.)

XVI.

The Masque of Anarchy. | A Poem. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Now first published, with a Preface by Leigh Hunt. | Hope is Strong; Justice and Truth their winged child have found. Revolt of Islam. London: | Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street. | 1832.

XVII.

(The Poems occupy pp. 109 126.)

XVIII.

XIX.

(1) The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Vignette of Shelley's Tomb.] London. | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | 1839.

(This is the engraved title-page. The printed title-page runs :-) (2) The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited By Mrs. Shelley. [Motto from Petrarch as in XVIII.] | London: | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | M.DCCC.XL.

(Large octavo, printed in double columns. The Dedication is dated 11th November, 1839.)

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